People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1893 — A Sudden Call. [ARTICLE]

A Sudden Call.

WASHINGTON, April 1.—Hiram Berdan, the inventor of the famous Berdan long-range torpedoes and rifle, died suddenly at the Metropolitan club in this city Friday evening. He had been ill for some time with angina pectoria. He appeared in the club about 5 o’clock and had a short conversation with the secretary, Maj. Sanger, to whom he remarked that he was not feeling very well A few minutes later he engaged in a game of chess with Admiral Crosby. Suddenly his head dropped and he began to breathe heavily, and expired almost instantly.